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In this paper, we propose a new differentiable neural network alignment mechanism for text-dependent speaker verification which uses alignment models to produce a supervector representation of an utterance. Unlike previous works with…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Victoria Mingote , Antonio Miguel , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

We present a transformer-based architecture for voice separation of a target speaker from multiple other speakers and ambient noise. We achieve this by using two separate neural networks: (A) An enrolment network designed to craft…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Akam Rahimi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

In this paper, we propose a deep convolutional neural network-based acoustic word embedding system on code-switching query by example spoken term detection. Different from previous configurations, we combine audio data in two languages for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Murong Ma , Haiwei Wu , Xuyang Wang , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

Speaker recognition is a biometric modality that utilizes the speaker's speech segments to recognize the identity, determining whether the test speaker belongs to one of the enrolled speakers. In order to improve the robustness of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Zhifeng Wang , Chunyan Zeng , Surong Duan , Hongjie Ouyang , Hongmin Xu

Recently, we proposed a novel speaker diarization method called End-to-End-Neural-Diarization-vector clustering (EEND-vector clustering) that integrates clustering-based and end-to-end neural network-based diarization approaches into one…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Deep speaker embedding has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in speaker recognition tasks. However, one potential issue with this approach is that the speaker vectors derived from deep embedding models tend to be non-Gaussian for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yunqi Cai , Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Andrew Abel

End-to-end speaker diarization for an unknown number of speakers is addressed in this paper. Recently proposed end-to-end speaker diarization outperformed conventional clustering-based speaker diarization, but it has one drawback: it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu

Speaker embeddings achieve promising results on many speaker verification tasks. Phonetic information, as an important component of speech, is rarely considered in the extraction of speaker embeddings. In this paper, we introduce phonetic…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Yi Liu , Liang He , Jia Liu , Michael T. Johnson

Neural speaker embeddings trained using classification objectives have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in multiple applications. Typically, such embeddings are trained on an out-of-domain corpus on a single task e.g., speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Manoj Kumar , Tae Jin-Park , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speech activities of target and non-target speakers as clues,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Shota Horiguchi , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Naohiro Tawara

We present Deep Speaker, a neural speaker embedding system that maps utterances to a hypersphere where speaker similarity is measured by cosine similarity. The embeddings generated by Deep Speaker can be used for many tasks, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Chao Li , Xiaokong Ma , Bing Jiang , Xiangang Li , Xuewei Zhang , Xiao Liu , Ying Cao , Ajay Kannan , Zhenyao Zhu

Typically, singing voice conversion (SVC) depends on an embedding vector, extracted from either a speaker lookup table (LUT) or a speaker recognition network (SRN), to model speaker identity. However, singing contains more expressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Xu Li , Shansong Liu , Ying Shan

Most state-of-the-art Deep Learning (DL) approaches for speaker recognition work on a short utterance level. Given the speech signal, these algorithms extract a sequence of speaker embeddings from short segments and those are averaged to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Miquel India , Pooyan Safari , Javier Hernando

State-of-the-art Deep Learning systems for speaker verification are commonly based on speaker embedding extractors. These architectures are usually composed of a feature extractor front-end together with a pooling layer to encode…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Federico Costa , Miquel India , Javier Hernando

An embedding-based speaker adaptive training (SAT) approach is proposed and investigated in this paper for deep neural network acoustic modeling. In this approach, speaker embedding vectors, which are a constant given a particular speaker,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Xiaodong Cui , Vaibhava Goel , George Saon

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Separating different speaker properties from a multi-speaker environment is challenging. Instead of separating a two-speaker signal in signal space like speech source separation, a speaker embedding de-mixing approach is proposed. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yanpei Shi , Thomas Hain

Using a Teacher-Student training approach we developed a speaker embedding extraction system that outputs embeddings at frame rate. Given this high temporal resolution and the fact that the student produces sensible speaker embeddings even…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

The article describes an attempt to apply an ensemble of binary classifiers to solve the problem of speech assessment in medicine. A dataset was compiled based on quantitative and expert assessments of syllable pronunciation quality.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-03 G. Belokrylov , A. Korenev , B. Lodonova , A. Novokhrestov

Recent diarization technologies can be categorized into two approaches, i.e., clustering and end-to-end neural approaches, which have different pros and cons. The clustering-based approaches assign speaker labels to speech regions by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara